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Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was tenser than usual. For four months now he had been in command of a fleet on the defensive, a fleet of whose very whereabouts the U.S. had asked impatient, taunting questions. Now, at last, the chance was at hand to write in battle smoke across the Pacific sky the world-taunting reply: "Who wants to know where the Fleet is?" But in this modern naval battle Chester Nimitz' job kept him from taking personal part. With the ships under way, with all but the last-minute...
Finally Admiral Nimitz gave his orders. The charts were put away, the last messages sent. The Admiral took up radio-grams dealing with other matters. He began thinking seriously about the Mother's Day radio address he was going to have to give...
...planned with the stealthy calculation of Indian raids, and executed with the bludgeon force of gang assassinations. For this kind of operation, well executed in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and in the assault on Marcus Island only 1,200 miles from Tokyo, the U.S. public could thank Planner Nimitz...
Faced with these dispositions, Douglas MacArthur in Australia, Admiral Chester Nimitz at Pearl Harbor, and all the other Allied leaders from San Francisco to Calcutta, had a tough decision to make. They had to guess what shell the pea was under...
...eleven battleships in service today-considerably more than the U.S. regularly bases in the Pacific. But in tonnage and fire power the fleets have somewhere near parity; and, if the Jap battlewagons are scattered from Nagasaki to Ceylon there is always the chance that a bold move by Admiral Nimitz might catch up with a weaker Japanese unit...